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By Maroun Khoury Daily Star correspondent Thursday, July 24, 2008 BKIRKI: Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir said on Wednesday that it is good to realize that the Lebanese nationality should be given to Lebanese emigrants, who he said, "deserve it." "According to many people, the Lebanese nationality has been offered to lots of individuals who are not worthy of it, while depriving several others of this citizenship though they deserve it," Sfeir said as he headed the first meeting of the Maronite Institution of Emigrants. "Realizing such a mistake is a good thing," he added. According to Sfeir, the institution, headed by former minister Michel Edde, aims to attract Lebanese emigrants, particularly the Maronites, to their homeland and convince them to register their names in the records of the Lebanese state in a bid to... [read full story]
